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Re: My Adventurers ISCC entry
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Thu, 9 Jan 2003 04:30:19 GMT
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In lugnet.adventurers, Brendan Powell Smith writes:
> Hi, Gary.
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> I've been away from LUGNET for a few days, so I'm a little late in posting,
> but wow! Congratulations on a wonderfully detailed and well-told story. I
> was a big fan of your Temple of Catur Muka last year, and was very glad to
> see you enter a new story in this year's ISCC.
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> I have to say, when I looked at that first photo of the story, it took me a
> minute to figure out that this wasn't a rendered Ldraw scene. Everything is
> so bright, clean, and crisply focused. Great camera work throughout.
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> I'm curious about scenes like the one with the vehicles racing across the
> desert. Was it laborious to replace the actual background of that photo
> with the desert scene? And how did you do that and still retain the vehicle
> shadows? Just curious.
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> Excellent job!
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> -The Rev. Brendan Powell Smith
Hi Brendan,
Thanks for the nice comments.
To do the vehicle scene, I bought a large sheet of fluorescent pink/magenta art
paper and photographed the models on it (and also making sure the paper was
evenly lit). I also used a polarizing filter to reduce pink reflections on the
models.
In Photoshop, I used the selection wand (with low tolerance) to select all the
non-shadow areas of the paper and antialiased the selection slightly. Then I
inverted the selection and pasted the models (and shadow areas of the paper) as
a new layer. After pasting the desert scene below this new layer, I adjusted
the hue and saturation of the pink/magenta band to match the color of the
desert. If you look carefully, you'll see there's no desert details in the
shadows.
It's not perfect, but I was running low on time (I submitted the entry 15
minutes before the deadline :)).
On a related note, how do you light your Brick Testament scenes? The lighting
always looks so perfect.
Take care,
Gary
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| Thanks for the detailed answer. (...) I think I was surprised as anyone when I saw how well the first set of Brick Testament photos came out. I had taken the occasional lucky great photo back when I used a film cameras, but I was new to the world of (...) (22 years ago, 9-Jan-03, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| Hi, Gary. I've been away from LUGNET for a few days, so I'm a little late in posting, but wow! Congratulations on a wonderfully detailed and well-told story. I was a big fan of your Temple of Catur Muka last year, and was very glad to see you enter (...) (22 years ago, 8-Jan-03, to lugnet.adventurers)
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